30 Days: 30 Acts of Kindness

Every year, we struggle as a family on HOW to get our kids involved with giving back during the holiday season. With ages of 7, 4, and 1, it is often difficult to find meaningful activities our kids can participate in! Last year, we rang the bell for Salvation Army. It was a great experience, but we wanted to do more this year. We wanted the spirit of giving to last a little longer in our house. So this year, we decided to give 30 Days: 30 Acts of Kindness a shot. Our 30 days is going to start on Thanksgiving and end on Christmas.

We were inspired by the random acts of kindness movement that’s been gaining momentum on social media and other sites. In fall, I read about a little girl who had lost her fight to cancer and in celebration of her life, thousands of area residents joined forces and participated in a day of bringing smiles to other people. I cried reading many of the posts!

I contacted Amanda to guest post on GVK to share our ideas with other people looking to give back, too. She sent me this awesome link from Courtney DeFeo’s blog with even more ideas, and I ended up adjusting our list! You can find that exhaustive list with so many great ideas here.

At first, I thought 30 days might be a bit long for us during the hustle of the holiday season. After all, we have three kids, school, work, after-school activities, businesses we run, etc. However, we started writing, and it became clear we would be doing some of these acts anyway. For us, it is about bringing awareness to these activities and getting our kids involved. During the week, we made sure that some of our acts were “easier” while weekend activities allowed for more involvement and time.

Here are some of our activities (you can get more ideas here). The Volunteer Center of East Central Wisconsin also publishes this great list of holiday volunteer opportunities every year here. Some of our acts are personalized but might help you as you make your list. If 30 seems like too much, just try 1 this year!

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